>>27152445Moving forward in time, the very attitude of the common people towards witchcraft, after the Protestant Reformation, points to a curious popular readiness to believe in the evil and undesirable influences of the female; for the fact that elderly women and not elderly men were particularly the suspected party in the persecutions against supposed cases of black magic, is significant, even if we deny the ruling and the truthfulness of the charges that were brought by Puritans, peasants, and Parliamentary Nonconformists alike against these unfortunate wretches. In cultures completely distant and different from the West, that of Classical and Hebrew religion, each possess a particular myth in which woman, in her entirety of manifestation, is specifically identified, blamed, and condemned with the introduction of evil on earth.
With Pandora and Eve, each the first woman created by the gods, and thus the very representation of woman at that time, came the end of an age of prosperity, glory, comfort, and beauty respective to their corresponding worlds. It cannot be merely a coincidence that in these oldest of human myths from the sagest cultures and legacies there is this indispensable connation between woman and evil.
Even with a culture lasting into the present lies the opinion of the Arabs and Muslims of today, which has denied woman a soul, notorious to the present opinion of Modern America and Europe today.
